“You mentioned that Palermo, the part of Buenos Aires where you were brought up, had been a violent place full of bohemians and bandits. There they had two names for the knife, ‘the blade’ and ‘the slicer’. The two names… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
“You said somewhere that you would like to write in one of the Nordic languages because they have more vowels, and vowels are more… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
“[A]ll gastronomic pleasure [is] a co-opted form of sexual desire. We interrupt the organic process of a plant or animal in order to eat… — Luis Fernando Veríssimo Copy Share Image
“You mentioned that Palermo, the part of Buenos Aires where you were brought up, had been a violent place full of bohemians and bandits.… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
“It isn’t everyday that we want to see a syrupy Van Gogh or hear a piquant fugue by Bach, or make love to a… — Luis Fernando Veríssimo Copy Share Image
Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe. — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
“Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.” — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage. — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
![“[A]ll gastronomic pleasure [is] a co-opted form of sexual desire. We interrupt the organic process of a plant or animal in order to eat it and we exhaust our own voluptuousness, our own perverted sexual desire, in the pleasure of eating.” quote by Luis Fernando Veríssimo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/139/luis-fernando-verissimo-44133_desire_a-ll-gastronomic-pleasure-is-a-co-opted_267212.jpg)
